Can you live forever

Chapter 422 Down to earth, investigation and analysis

Land is the foundation of everything.

After the mighty land equalization reform, whether it is better to return the land to private individuals or to return the land to the public, the difference between them is the most profound experience of farmers.

It's just that they have different expectations and selfishness, so many people don't want to look directly at the gap.

of course.

This is still a case of comparison. If there is no horizontal comparison, but only vertical comparison of the previous days, then there is no need for any pain, and I only feel prosperous and healthy.

As for those rumors about the situation in the north?rumor!Absolute rumor!

Therefore, people will always deceive themselves. After all, if all suffering is unforgettable, then life is too difficult. Suffering is never worthy of praise, and forgetting is just a helpless escape.

When there is nowhere to escape, either wake up or collapse, that's all.

Zhang Zhixiang left Juzizhou and did not go back to the Yangtze River by water. Instead, he went around Changsha Mansion, because the contrast between the two acre systems in Huguang is the strongest, and it is also the most valuable for reference.

Changsha, Changde, Yuezhou.

Three months later.

After making a big circle around Dongting Lake, Zhang Zhixiang returned to Juzizhou again. Fu Youyu's reconstruction of the resort island has achieved initial results. This time Zhang Zhixiang plans to live for a while.

He is going to complete a work - Huguang Rural Investigation Report.

Because there are a large number of former Wang family manors around Dongting Lake, Zhang Zhixiang successfully obtained the most authentic records and data in the most Dongting Lake area.

He also witnessed the changes that have taken place in the Huguang area since Xu Jie led the public ownership reform.

During the investigation, Wang Jiangque once left for a trip to Nanjing to watch an execution. Xu Dong, who had made friends with Xu Jie, helped Xu Jie gain momentum, and volunteered to donate land, was beheaded.

On the first day of April, Xu Jie officially launched the armed reform.

Under premeditated circumstances, the Nanjing Parliament was almost wiped out, and several big businessmen were all captured. With hundreds of heads falling on the Nanjing court, the curtain of the great era was completely lifted.

From Nanjing to remote villages in Sichuan, Guizhou and Dashan, the people at the bottom were mobilized.

With an overly cathartic attitude, they kick off a violent transformation.

The heads of the old rulers were chopped off, and the ground was red with blood, which moistened the dry and barren soil, and the new vitality began to grow wildly.

They didn't have any experience, and probably made a lot of jokes.

But there is no doubt that they are trying to control their own destiny, although...the mind has not changed.

"Xu Jie's biggest problem is that he lacks a team of pioneers. In the past training of Donglin Academy, it was based on the premise of democracy and freedom. Because the composition of the students was not clarified, the education of Donglin Academy is only superficial. effort."

"Their reform is nothing more than an old reform under a new banner."

"If you want to say that there is any difference from Wang Anshi's reform, it is probably because Xu Jie knew the power of the people at the bottom and made good use of this power, so he succeeded."

"Although it seems that there is a huge difference between these two reforms."

"Wang Anshi's reform was for the purpose of 'management management' and 'military consolidation', so the court's financial problems must be changed, so it was necessary to improve productivity, among which grain output was the most critical. Policies such as the Green Crop Law were implemented, with the intention of not changing land ownership and tax exploitation. Under the circumstances, to ensure the smooth progress of farmers' production..."

"On the other hand, Xu Jie's public reform completed the transformation of the entire society on the premise of equalizing the land, confirmed the existence of exploitation, overthrew the exploiting class, greatly liberated the productive forces, and allowed the common people to stand up and work hard. Master."

"It can be said that not only one of the two reforms won, but the other lost, and the intentions are very different."

"It can't be grouped together at all."

"But in reality? Xu Jie did come up with a systematic theory in an emergency, so that they have a theory that can guide their thinking and actions, but there are huge problems in implementing it."

"The main problem is those who implement the change, Xu Jie's students."

"The slogans in their mouths are not the same as the cognition in their hearts. They just follow Xu Jie to do it, but they don't really understand what this change needs and what it means. Are they inspired by this greatness? support from the heart.”

"They are not. What they see is that the old system has been overthrown, and they, as Xu Jie's direct descendants, will be on the new stage..."

"so."

"This is actually an old-fashioned reform with a new slogan, or a different kind of dynasty change, but it has not really completed the transformation and progress of civilization..."

Zhang Zhixiang wrote this investigation report stroke by stroke, as if engraved on a stone.

During the investigation and visit.

He has encountered many instances. The lack of Xu Jie's own team has led to various strange appearances at the bottom. The most common one is that in a village, everyone is keen on fighting. Everyone wants to grab the name and justice, and then go out All kinds of dirty tricks and bad tricks, and then no one presided over the persuasion, and gradually abandoned farming, and then to see who had more grain harvest, they said he was the landlord...

In this way, the atmosphere will be bad.

Xu Jie has considered the issue of morality, so he keeps sending "imperial envoys" to various places to rectify the wind, but just like when Wang Anshi reformed the law, Wang Anshi also likes to send censors to tour various places to correct the wind and rectify the law.

But, useless.

In other words, it is a temporary solution but not the root cause. At the beginning, everyone took it seriously, but later it did not really solve the problem. After two times and three times, no one expected it.

After getting used to it.

People's enthusiasm for Xu Jie will also fade, and what is exposed to the vast countryside is confusion, while the new order is chaotic, and the old order begins to restore.

The patriarchal line began to re-emerge on the stage.

Many things have already happened, many things have signs and will happen.

No matter what, Zhang Zhixiang didn't think Xu Jie's reform was successful.

Although the countryside is chaotic, the city is doing very well. Almost everyone praises Xu Jie, and even thinks that Xu Jie is the most outstanding saint in history.

They firmly believe that following Xu Jie's path, everyone will have a better tomorrow.

As for the chaos and hardships facing the countryside?

The difficulty is temporary, but it is just a problem with the "technical level". When the bureaucracy is rectified and everyone's knowledge and cultural level is improved, it will be resolved.

Farmers poor?

It doesn't matter, it's all because of insufficient productivity. When the productivity is developed, everyone will be rich.

Zhang Zhixiang writes on and off.

In any case, after three months, the villages whose land was privately owned were not as good as the villages whose land was not owned by the public. After all, how could a group that focused on internal friction compare to a group that worked together.

Lighting up a book at night.

Wang Jiangque brought the glutinous rice balls over, and she compiled a lot of information by herself, so she couldn't understand better, pulled a chair and sat down, and said: "The biggest problem with Xu Jie is that this reform has nothing but superficiality."

"He's not actually making a change in the minds of the people."

"He just forced the people to change their way of life. At the same time, he also emphasized dedication and patience, advocated hard work, and allowed capital to increase to the greatest extent. Therefore, their industrialization process has far surpassed ours."

"It can be said that factories are blooming everywhere, and various projects are launched."

"Essentially."

"It's an industrial carnival in the guise of change."

Zhang Zhixiang nodded and said, "Xu Jie doesn't mind having a price, but some people have become the price but don't know it. In front of the general public, the productivity changes brought about by industry are earth-shaking."

"They marvel at the power, and then they're mesmerized."

"That's what Xu Jie wants. He knows what the problem is, so he uses his influence to coerce and maintain a certain fragile balance. The rest only needs to be enough for industrial development."

"Xu Jie is not afraid of going bad, so he can let go and whitewash peace as much as possible."

"Even after a few years, people's memories will be beautified, and Xu Jie will be given various halos, which is extremely sacred."

Not just whitewashing.

Xu Jie will expand democracy and fairness, and then criticize and interfere with the court's practices. They will even organize hunts down and go to the northern border to "punish evil and promote good".

In this regard.

Wang Jiangque said with emotion: "In the past, the gentry ran to the south, but now they run to the north."

"In addition to being dramatic, it is also a direct expression of the differences between the two sides. Xu Jie killed all the people indiscriminately and drove them away. The only ones who can be used are those who are really poor. family, not those scholars who were affected by the equalization of fields and reforms."

"Although the number of them is not small, their talents are still somewhat ambiguous."

"Although one county's talent is enough for governing the country, that is the model of the past. In the past, imperial power could not go to the countryside. The countryside was basically governed by the gentry, so there were not many talents."

"After the reform of the law, the responsibilities of the government will be expanded indefinitely, and it is no longer enough for a county's talents to meet the needs."

"It's the countryside that is a vast world and needs to do a lot."

"Almost every village has to have talents who can make up their minds, and under planning and development, every township and county needs talents with a longer-term vision and more convincing morality."

"However."

"Not to mention the more than 1000 counties in Daming, but the vast rural areas. There are 300 to [-] million villages in Daming."

"There is no way for Xu Jie to have enough talents to govern such a vast territory and maintain the achievements of the reform under the internal friction of fundamental contradictions."

Not only the gentry ran away, but also southern officials.

The fire that Xu Jie ignited, he couldn't control the fire. When he declared war on the gentry, basically all the officials in the south of the Yangtze River began to flee, and no one wanted to stay and wait to die.

Many of these people have corrupted the law in the past, oppressed the people, and committed many crimes.

These people are not very powerful talents.

However, the momentary vacuum was the main cause of the problem. Almost instantly, the entire Jiangnan government system collapsed, and Xu Jie needed to complete the rebuilding, which can be said to be time-consuming and labor-intensive.

It's not a question of talent, but a question of experience.

During the Hongwu period, Taizu let the officials try the cases in shackles, which is actually very essence, because those officials knew how to be afraid after making mistakes, so they knew how to advance and retreat.

And the newcomers have no experience, let alone know the rules.

Even for those who are within their duties and those who are greedy, there is no boundary at all... This boundary has been blurred for a long time, and it is very logical to take public and private.

Thinking of the signs that he saw in the past three months, Zhang Zhixiang shook his head helplessly.

"Reform is not a matter of one person."

"Even if Xu Jie knows about various problems, he has corresponding solutions, but if he has no way to implement them, the effect will be greatly reduced, and there will be more and more problems, making Xu Jie and Nanjing exhausted."

Zhang Zhixiang shook his head, quite emotional.

Not only do we need a group of people who truly understand that the world is for the public, but we also need to continuously increase such people during the construction and development process. Not only must we not forget the original intention, but we must continue to make progress.

Otherwise, it will be like the big brother of later generations, the unbreakable alliance collapsed in just 70 years, and the problem lies in the change of people's hearts.

The husband has seen this problem, so he has been emphasizing the ordering of people's hearts.

But he was weak and unable to succeed.

"Xu Jie doesn't need to last for a long time. He only needs to survive the last few years. From the peak of the Great Heat, 21 years after Jiajing, there are only four years left."

"No matter what, Xu Jie can maintain it."

"Before the peasants in the countryside are clearly aware of the difficulties and corruption, he can go to war with us. At that time, he is still the most outstanding saint in the hearts of the people."

Xu Jie can maintain it, even in four or five years, it will still be on the rise. It will take ten years for Xu Jie to feel weak, and it will collapse in two or thirty years.

Therefore, the current Xu Jie is not yet a paper poster.

People in the world really believed that Xu Jie could create an unprecedented prosperity, and it was better than the imperial court, because most people in the south would scoff when they looked at the north.

If the law is not completely reformed, it means that the law will not be completely changed.

The people in the south of the Yangtze River think that they are the ones who truly rule the world, and that the north is just a top-down improvement, a self-help of the feudal remnants!

although.

Only the farmers on both sides know the difference, but it is impossible for them to know the overall situation. This is due to poor information, and it is the self-deception of the people in Jiangnan.

For Wang Jiangque's reminder, Zhang Zhixiang nodded slightly.

"These achievements are Xu Jie's golden body, and no matter how much it increases Xu Jie's strength, at least if we attack Xu Jie without a reason, the people in the south of the Yangtze River will not agree."

"If it gets too big, maybe Jiangnan and the north will really split."

"And after Xu Jie brewed his power to the peak, he only needs to defeat us, be able to digest the north, enter the imperial court, and obtain the sovereignty of Ming Dynasty, and he can change the direction of civilization development as he likes."

"According to the original trajectory, rush to the end at a dead end."

"After devouring our line, the main body of the white snake has grown stronger..."

"Constantly devouring, constantly becoming stronger."

"So that all the world lines have fallen, and even the progress of the main line has also entered destruction. Our civilization and the hope of the entire universe are completely over."

(End of this chapter)